Character: 信
Modern (Beijing) reading: xìn
Preclassic Old Chinese: slhins (~ -ǝns)
Classic Old Chinese: sl̥inh
Western Han Chinese: sl̥jǝnh
Eastern Han Chinese: s(h)jǝnh
Early Postclassic Chinese: s(h)jìn
Middle Postclassic Chinese: s(h)jìn
Late Postclassic Chinese: s(h)jìn
Middle Chinese: sjìn
English meaning : to believe, trust
Russian meaning[s]: 1) верить; вера; доверять; довериться, отдаться на волю (кого-л.); верный, подлинный; действительно, в самом деле; 2) весть, известие; письмо; отношение; 3) сигнал, знак; признак; 4) мышьяк
Comments: Used also for an homonymous *slhǝn-s (~ -in-s) 'be staying one more night, staying two nights'. Most OC rhymes for 信 are in 平聲, and Schüssler may be right in reconstructing zero suffix (*slhin) for EZ. Viet. tin also points to *slhin (although the standard Sino-Viet. form is tín). The word *slhin-s 'trust, believe' may be related to 神 *lǝn 'spirit'; in this case *s-lhǝn-s must be reconstructed.
Radical: 9
Four-angle index: 1141
Karlgren code: 0384 a
Vietnamese reading: tin
Jianchuan Bai: śĩ3
Bijiang Bai: sẽ2
Shijing occurrences: 31.5_, 51.3_
